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But this is that which will dignify and exalt knowledge: if contemplation and action be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united together than they have been: a conjunction like unto that of the highest planets, Saturn, the planet of rest and contemplation, and Jupiter, the planet of civil society and action.

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Learning hath his infancy, when it is but beginning and almost childish; then his youth, when it is luxuriant and juvenile; then his strength of years, when it is solid and reduced; and lastly his old age, when it waxeth dry and exhaust.

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If you want to convey fact, this can only ever be done through a form of distortion. You must distort to transform what is called appearance into image.

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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

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Hope is the most beneficial of all the affections, and doth much to the prolongation of life.

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The light that a man receives by counsel from another is drier and purer than that which comes from his own understanding and judgment, which is ever infused and drenched in his affections and customs.

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Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb.

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Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.

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There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

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Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

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What, then, remains but that we still should cry, For being born, and, being born, to die?

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Habit, if wisely and skillfully formed, becomes truly a second nature; but unskillfully and unmethodically depicted, it will be as it were an ape of nature, which imitates nothing to the life, but only clumsily and awkwardly

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Every person born in the USA is endowed with life, liberty, and a substantial share of the national debt.

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For it is most true that a natural and secret hatred and aversation towards society in any man, hath somewhat of the savage beast.

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Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

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Time is the author of authors.

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It is the wisdom of the crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour.

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The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

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Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

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There is no doubt but men of genius and leisure may carry our method to greater perfection, but, having had long experience, we have found none equal to it for the commodiousness it affords in working with the Understanding.

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